Sons of Anarchy Boss Talks 'Controversial' Premiere Twist that Sets Up 'Final Act' of Series

A dark, violent twist at the end of Sons of Anarchy‘s Sept. 10 Season 6 premiere took center stage Friday at the Television Critics Assoc. summer press tour, with series creator Kurt Sutterconceding that the event will likely raise a few eyebrows.

Choosing his words carefully so as not to outright spoil the episode, Sutter — who was joined by series stars Charlie Hunnam and Katey Sagal — told reporters, “I’ve wanted to do that story for about three years. I know obviously that it would be somewhat controversial, but I feel like as much as I wouldn’t do something because it was controversial, I’m also not going to do something because it is [controversial]… It’s an organic story to our world; thematically it’s the right fit.

“I will also say that there’s a lot of blood and guts in my show — it’s a signature of the show,” he continued. “But I feel like nothing is done gratuitously. This is a story that’s not being done to be sensational… It is truly the catalyst for the final act of our morality play. It sets everything in motion for this season that will ultimately lead to the end that then will bring us into the final season and what I see as the ultimate comeuppance of everything in terms of the series.”

Sutter, meanwhile, once again confirmed that the show’s seventh season would be its last. “I have an idea of what the final shot is,” he teased, “and I hold onto it loosely. If that’s what it ends up being, that’s what it ends up being. For me, I need that marker to go towards and then I’m led to the right place.”

You can’t even guess with this show. What isn’t within the realm of organic action in a show where setting a girl on fire and bashing someone in the head with a pipe are just about conventional? Human taxidermy??

Gemma kills Tara? That certainly would set up a killer final season in terms of Jax learning the truth about his mother and her involvement in his father’s death and whatnot. No one could say that they haven’t been building towards it for the past few seasons, that’s for sure. In the meantime, someone hold me…

Kate: You know, that’s what I was thinking. And frankly I think that would be a mistake. However, who the heck am I, right? LOL But we have Tara and Clay both behind bars to start out the season, and if I remember correctly some months ago (and I can’t remember where but somewhere online) there was a nod to Tara somehow doing the dirty with another female inmate. Maybe something bad happens prior to that considering that this article talks about the premiere. I would hate to see that with Tara’s character, but…

Prison rape would only be shocking if it happened to Clay. And when you think about it, it’s pure karma. Gemma was the tipping point for Clay going to jail; why not have him suffer the way that she did? It’s the ultimate revenge.

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If you’re uninclined to look on huffpost or just wanna know. It is indeed a school shooting. The gun the kid uses is traced back to the Sons.
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Well if you sell guns illegally for a living then one of them is bound to end up in a horrific shooting incident sooner or later.
So I can see how Sutter would say it is organic to the story / environment that he is writing about.

I think it is a story that needs to be told. People seems to think all gun crimes are committed with guns legally purchased or stolen from someone who legally purchased them. It’s about time that a show exposes the potential far reaching effects of the black market gun trade, which is something that I have no problem believing a motorcycle gang would be involved in.

Well knowing soa and kurt sutter I think your all wrong. Its going to consist of torric doing something to otto or tara. If you ask me tara s dead or ottos junk will get castrated. Or torric will use acid or something. All I know is torric will be involved.

Watching the show I have always thought they cannot just sell guns and only bad guys will shoot bad guys with them. There has to be some reality check about what business these guys are really in. I believe if the school shooting is what the spoiler is, it will hit way to close to Jax because of Thomas and Abel and while he may not leave Samcro maybe he can finally take his fathers vision and change the club. I wonder if Opies kids are involved in any way, that family is marked for tragedy.

I think it would be weird irony if Tara gets hooked on drugs while she’s locked up.. If not that, it’ll definitely be something involving her this season.. She’s a ticking time bomb just waiting to self destruct..

Breaking Bad had a child involved in a shooting on the show as well.
They have also had 2 children gunned down in seperate incidents all revolving around the the Crystal Meth business.
Breaking Bad and SOA are stories about illegal gun and drug activity.
The violence it breeds and the consequences.

Although I am not happy about what I found out about the season premier, it is a show about a violent motorcycle gang. So what do you expect. If you do not want to see that type of realistlc violence, then watch something else……change the channel…..

To the ones that say they’re shocked and its tasteless and blah, blah. Then don’t watch it. It’s just a tv show. It’s an awesome, violent, controversial tv show, but still just a tv show. It’s had crazy stuff going on since season 1 and every season has gotten progressively more violent. Why should this be different?

The school shooting seems to be only PART of it. Don’t know if it’s related or not, but there will apparently be a specific scene that is very “chilling”. If it’s “chilling” by SOA standards, then it’s probably something that hasn’t been done on TV before (or at least in awhile). I hope they aren’t just saying that to hype the scene, only to have it be the usual.

I have a feeling it’s about the ‘SAMCRO KIDS’ jax’s and opie’s………although the comments above are saying it’s a school shooting. Abel gets kidnapped in S2/S3 and got inpaled by a tree branch in S5 by gemma HIGH AS A KITE while driving.
Maybe this time something to do w/baby thomas? Opie’s kids haven’t really been around so…….possilbly something happend to one or both?

Disappointed since season 2. The thrill is gone. A school shooting isnt going to bring that back. Season 3&4 season finales were great season 5 disappointing. Where have all the good writers gone sutter?

I watched the first 5 seasons of SOA, and about half way through, found it to be all most comical. Seems everything they planned out to stay in business ended up bad for them and then at the last second, the plan would work, somehow. This fictional MC had to have the worst possible luck imaginable, their continued bad luck, show after show, became laughable. Their bad luck was mostly due to internal screw ups, deceit, and strife among the members, and spent an inordinate amount of time cleaning up after themselves before they could complete their plans. Could it be because the producers and writers wanted to show that real life MCs are made up of mostly stupid gangsters? I will be watching the final seasons just to see how badly it ends for these numbskulls.